Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 41283 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 17:04:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 17:04:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 8149 invoked by uid 97); 25 Jul 2002 17:04:41 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 7886 invoked by uid 97); 25 Jul 2002 17:04:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 7649 invoked by uid 98); 25 Jul 2002 17:04:34 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4198 created Apr 24 2002) Message-ID: <3D403061.EF7D8870@olin.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:07:45 -0400 From: "Patrick (Gus) Heck" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Vetoes are void? was Re: [VOTE] target-less build files - counting results References: <200207242004.20806.peter@apache.org> <200207250140.35074.peter@apache.org> <3D3ECBBF.40405@apache.org> <005101c23331$519e2d10$d1eefea9@homenkf0y0hwu0> <00c501c23334$d533e860$270610ac@manu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Magesh Umasankar wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nicola Ken Barozzi" > > > > Listen guys, if we follow the analogy with Java classes, what Peter says > > make perfect sense. > > > Having targetless buildfiles is like having methodless classes with only > > a static part... I don't know if it's possible in java, but who would > > ever use it? > > It is very much possible in Java to have just > a static part and nothing else. In fact a colleague of mine just ran into exactly this type of java file (written by someone else) in some code he is working with. Scary but there are people out there who do scary things! Gus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: